Does any bods know if its ok to fill the bass ports on my monitors to reduce the bass or
will it have side effects to the rest of the sound?? ive tried stuffing a sock in the port
and it seems to work but not sure if this may damage the speaker or the sound in some way.

I would be cautious as to whether the speaker could overheat if it is active and the
reflex design in any way relates to cooling of the internal amp. It may alter other
factors in the speaker too. It is really a temporary measure to gain an alternative
reference.

You should be ok just don't play at too high volumes then your amps
will be running cool.

Unlikely to cause overheating issues. It will change the response dramatically and
somewhat unpredictably. Can be used as a short term 'fix' but really, if our speakers are
so poor that you need to fix them this way you'd be better selling them and buying
something better.

Thanks Hugh, Actualy ive got the new Neumann monitors wich i see you have given the thumbs
up in other posts and the bass problem is to do with my room not the speakers but just
thought blocking the ports my help, my studio is a very small 2 x 3 meter box at the back
of my house with all solid walls so defo not ideal but gotta work with it somehow.

Quote Rola:Thanks Hugh, Actualy
ive got the new Neumann monitors wich i see you have given the thumbs up in other posts
and the bass problem is to do with my room not the speakers but just thought blocking the
ports my help, my studio is a very small 2 x 3 meter box at the back of my house with all
solid walls so defo not ideal but gotta work with it somehow.

Seems a bit daft to reduce the performance
and accuracy of the speaker when the problem is a bad room. Why waste money on excellent
speakers that can't deliver what they are capable of for the lack of some room
treatment.

Small rooms are always difficult, but investing a few hundred on
acoustic treatment will allow you to actually hear what your nice speakers are capable
of.

actualy i have already spend a few hundred on aurelex bass traps and acoustic tiles but as
i have such a small room with all solid walls theres only so much i can fit in there,
maby Hugh you could come and visit and give me a studio sos, i think you would find this
room a real challenge, mesured it today and its 180cm x 260cm so could be the worlds
smallest studio. i dont think it was daft to buy the best monitors i could afford, even if
the room is wrong cheaper monitors would only sound even worse.

well it took me a while to get used to the new monitors but after a few changes with some
rockwool in the mini studio the neumann monitors sound amazing. i had mackie 624 before
and they seemed to make anything sound good but these dont sound so good but i can hear
every deatail now my ears have adjusted, before small eq changes seemed to make no
diference but now i can hear even a tiny 1db notch in all frequencys.

Quote Rola:well it took me a
while to get used to the new monitors but after a few changes with some rockwool in the
mini studio the neumann monitors sound amazing. i had mackie 624 before and they seemed to
make anything sound good but these dont sound so good but i can hear every deatail now my
ears have adjusted, before small eq changes seemed to make no diference but now i can hear
even a tiny 1db notch in all frequencys.

Some years ago I owned for a few months a pair of active Alesis
Monitor One's and decided to block the ports with old socks - a suggestion made by PW at
the time. Before that, a pair of Tannoy ported boxes also plugged with old socks.

Plugging ports proved to be of limited value in my case (maybe I should have washed
these old socks first!) since my room had little in the way of 'treatment' I wondered
whether there was benefit blocking the ports at all without attention to the room
acoustics, so set about adding bass traps to see.

At this time I also owned a
pair of unported (passive radiator) Mackie 624's and used them in a smaller edit room.
After which, I changed them for a pair of closed box loudspeakers (AE22).

What
I was hearing thereafter was the edit room - which had no acoustic treatment at all. With
the 624's, I hadn't really heard (or taken notice) how bad that room sounded until I
changed to a pair AE22's.

This same edit room now has some thick bass trapping
which has improved the room response. I chose not to use acoustic foam in such a small
listening area because I'd read that foam is only of value from 200hz upwards (No doubt I
will be corrected if that assertion is nonsense); and, as my room tip-ups and downs seemed
to commence around 150hz downwards lotsa mineral wool trapping was required. I have a
small amount of flutter left to deal with which might be tamed with acoustic panels at
mirror-points.

The room is still rubbish, but better controlled rubbish !and I have learnt the hard way, to my financial cost: treat the room, not the
loudspeakers.